[225] Archæologia, LXIII, 32.

[226] Harleian Miscellany, X, 306.

[227] Afterwards Duke of Northumberland.

[228] The famous minister of Philip II.

[229] See Ashmolean, MS. 845, 171a; and Harl. MS., Codex 69, Art. 20.

[230] Archæological Journal, LXI, 304.

[231] The duties of “pursuivants d’armes” are given by Sainte-Palaye in his Mémoires sur L’Ancienne Chevalerie (I, 32), and among them is that of registering the scores, “& afin de n’en point perdre la mémoire, on y portoit des tablettes pour enregistrer les faits & les circonstances les plus remarquables.”

[232] “He that on horsebacke directeth his Launce at the head, is more to be praised, than he that toucheth lower. For the higher the Launce hitteth, the greater is the Runners commendation.”

[233] Harl. MS. 326, fol. 113 vᵒ.

[234] Archæologia, Vol. LXIII.